Join hosts JD Barker, Christine Daigle, Jena Brown and Kevin Tumlinson as they discuss the week's entertainment news, including how the U.K.’s biggest publishers are using AI, Amazon adding Andrew Ng, and Amazon putting all three Claude AI models on Bedrock. Then, stick around for a chat with author CJ Tudor!
C. J. Tudor's love of writing, especially the dark and macabre, started young. When her peers were reading Judy Blume, she was devouring Stephen King and James Herbert.
Over the years she has had a variety of jobs, including trainee reporter, radio scriptwriter, dog walker, voiceover artist, television presenter, copywriter and, now, author.
Her first novel, The Chalk Man, was a Sunday Times bestseller, has sold in over forty countries and will be developed into a six-part drama with BBC Studios Production. Her second novel, The Taking of Annie Thorne, was also a Sunday Times bestseller as was her third novel The Other People. Her fourth novel, The Burning Girls, was a Richard and Judy Book Club selection and is being adapted for Paramount+ by award-winning screenwriter Hans Rosenfeldt, creator of The Bridge and Marcella.
She lives in Sussex, England with her family.
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The one where NYT Bestseller James Ellroy details his process. How does it differ from yours?
The one where NYT bestsellers Beth and Boyd Morrison explain why every book should have dragons.
The one where Sally Gardner explains why you need to take your main characters out to dinner.
The one where Mariana Zapata explains how she received over a quarter BILLION views on TikTok.
The one where Andrew Child explains what goes into writing the 28th Jack Reacher book with his brother, Lee Child.
The one where Richard Chizmar explains the art of telling a fiction tale as “true crime."
The one where Ashley Winstead explains story arcs and why Twilight was important.
The one where Daniel Sweren-Becker takes a stab at explaining our complicated relationship with true crime.
The one where M.P. Woodward reveals how his tech work with Amazon Prime Video inspired him to write again.
The one where Khashayar J. Khabushani explains why you're not a real writer until you've cried over a typewriter (while passing through TSA).
The one where Ryan Steck explains why he writes the epilogue first.
The one where Nicholas Fillmore explains how he turned his time with an international smuggling ring into a solid memoir.
The one where Stephen King's former assistant, Marsha DeFilippo, proves it's never too late to write that first book.
The one where Sara DiVello explains how to properly promote on social media.
The one where Josh Malerman explains why every story needs a good beat.
The one where Marc Cameron explains what it's like to write for the Tom Clancy estate.
The one where Nick Cutter and Andrew F. Sullivan explain the pros and cons of co-authoring.
The one where Kerrie Droban explains how to craft a true crime page-turner.
The one where Josh Haven provides many reasons NOT to go to Russia (and why those reasons make a great thriller).
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